TDD in Clojure: Mocking & Stubbing
A few minutes into my first real TDD trip in Clojure I discovered there is two reasonable ways I can do tests: Mocking or black-box testing. I decided to go for mocking, and so I discovered...
View ArticleDo Leave Failing Tests
Thou shalt do your coding in small increments. No work item may be longer than one day. And if thy work is unfinished at the end of the day, cut it off, and cast from thee. We heard it, believe it and...
View ArticleTDD on Existing Code
I recently read two blog posts about writing tests for existing (often “legacy”) code. Jacek Laskowski describes (in Polish) the moment when he realized that TDD actually means development driven by...
View ArticleTesting Spring & Hibernate Without XML
I’m very keen on the improvements in Spring 3 that eventually let you move away from XML into plain Java configuration with proper support from IDE and compiler. It doesn’t change the fact that Spring...
View ArticleDirect Server HTTP Calls in Protractor
When you’re running end-to-end tests, chances are that sometimes you need to set up the system before running the actual test code. It can involve cleaning up after previous executions, going through...
View ArticleValidating Class/Package Dependencies with Classycle
Classycle is a very nice analyzer and dependency checker for class and package dependencies. It lets you define package groups (components, layers) and express unwanted dependencies such as cycles, or...
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